The apprenticeship of difficulty
is one which the greatest of men have had to serve. - Samuel Smiles

The best way out of a difficulty
is through it. - Will Rogers

The difficulties
we experience always illuminate the lessons we need most. - Unknown

The difficulties you meet will
resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with
increasing clearness on your path. - Jim
Rohn

The greater the difficulty, the
more glory in surmounting it. Skilful pilots gain
their reputations from storms and tempests. - Epictetus

The more difficulties one has to encounter,
within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life
will be. - Horace Bushnell

The most difficult thing in the
world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong,
without comment. - Theodore H. White

The very greatest things – great
thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship,
often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty. - Samuel
Smiles

The work of many of the greatest
men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty.
- Samuel Smiles

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you
alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. - Unknown

To
strive with difficulties and to conquer them is the highest form of human
felicity. - Samuel Johnson

Undertake
something that is difficult; it will do you good. Unless you try to do
something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. - Ronald E. Osborn

We must never despair; our
situation has been compromising before; and it changed for the better; so I
trust it will again; If difficulties arise; we must put forth new exertion and
proportion our efforts to the exigencies of the times. - George Washington

When you encounter difficulties and
contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and
time. - Saint Francis De Sales

If all difficulties were known at
the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. - Dan
Rather